The inheritance of a Mesozoic landscape in western Scandinavia

Ola Fredin; Giulio Viola; Horst Zwingmann; Ronald Sørlie; Marco Brönner; Jan-Erik Lie; Else Margrethe Grandal; Axel Müller; Annina Margreth; Christoph Vogt; Jochen Knies

doi:10.1038/ncomms14879

Nature Communications (Apr 2017)

The inheritance of a Mesozoic landscape in western Scandinavia

Ola Fredin,
Giulio Viola,
Horst Zwingmann,
Ronald Sørlie,
Marco Brönner,
Jan-Erik Lie,
Else Margrethe Grandal,
Axel Müller,
Annina Margreth,
Christoph Vogt,
Jochen Knies

Affiliations

Ola Fredin: Geological Survey of Norway
Giulio Viola: Geological Survey of Norway
Horst Zwingmann: Department of Geology and Mineralogy, Kyoto University, Kitashirakawa Oiwake-cho, 606-8502 Kyoto, Japan
Ronald Sørlie: Lundin Petroleum AS
Marco Brönner: Geological Survey of Norway
Jan-Erik Lie: Lundin Petroleum AS
Else Margrethe Grandal: Lundin Petroleum AS
Axel Müller: Natural History Museum, University of Oslo
Annina Margreth: Geological Survey of Norway
Christoph Vogt: ZEKAM/FB5 Geowissenschaften, University of Bremen
Jochen Knies: Geological Survey of Norway

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14879
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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The age of weathering inferred from bedrock saprolite local to Scandinavia remains loosely constrained. Here, via K-Ar dating of authigenic, syn-weathering illite from saprolitic remnants, the authors constrain weathering to the Late Triassic.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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